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We passed by a place where there is a very large stone, I may call it a rock; 'a vast weight for Ajax . The tradition is, that a giant threw such another stone at his mistress, up to the top of a hill, at a small distance; and that she in return, threw this mass down to him . It was all in sport. 'Malo me petit lasciva puella . As we advanced, we came to a large extent of plain ground.
Dolaeus records an instance of double tongue in a paper entitled "De puella bilingui," and Beaudry and Brothers speak of cleft tongue. Braine records a case in which there was a large hypertrophied fold of membrane coming from each side of the upper lip. In some cases there is marked augmentation of the volume of the tongue.
The culta puella and the cultus puer of Ovid's fascinating yet repulsive poem are the products of a society which looks on pleasure, not reason or duty, as the main end of life, not indeed pleasure simply of the grosser type, but the gratification of one's own wish for enjoyment and excitement, without a thought of the misery all around, or any sense of the self-respect that comes of active well-doing.
But the thought patterns originating within the mind itself, the processes that correlate and cross-index and speculate on and hypothesize about the sensory data, those are much more fragile. A man might glance once through a Latin primer and have every page imprinted indelibly on his recording mechanism and still be unable to make sense of the Nauta in cubito cum puella est.
"Vale, carissima, carissima puella!" repeated Rebecca in her musical voice. "Oh, how beautiful it sounds! I don't wonder it altered your feeling for Abijah!
Croker censures the poet for applying the word puella to a lady in Laura's situation, and for talking of the beauty of Lucina. "Lucina," he says, "was never famed for her beauty." If Sir Robert Peel had seen this note, he probably would have again refuted Mr. Croker's criticisms by an Appeal to Horace.
'Malo me Galatea petit, lasciva puella. 'My Phillis me with pelted apples plies. DRYDEN. Virgil, Eclogues, iii. 64. 'The helpless traveller, with wild surprise, Sees the dry desert all around him rise, And smother'd in the dusty whirlwind dies. Cato act ii. sc. 6. Johnson seems unwilling to believe this.
The answer is this "Besides the obligation of penance, he incurs none; quia puella habet jus usum sui corporis concedendi." Trachala published a volume which he facetiously entitled the "Laver of Conscience;" and at p. 96, he presents us with this astounding recipe to purify the conscience "An Concubinarius sit absolvendus antequam concubinam dimittat?"
"A frolicsome child," he mused. "LASCIVA PUELLA. Possibly wanton." What were this young man's relations with the girl? That contact of hand and chin what did it imply? Was the action quasi-paternal, or pseudo-paternal? Regretfully he decided that it was only pseudo-paternal. And yet it was all so confoundedly natural!
Then the nearsighted father put out his hand toward Peter's little sister. She jumped she could not help it, and the holy father jumped too; the Christmas wreath actually tumbled off his head. "It is a miracle!" exclaimed he when he could speak: "the little girl is alive! parra puella viva est. I will pick her and take her to the brethren, and we will pay her the honors she is entitled to."
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